President Obama is a peerless liar. He is so consistent that one only need know he is speaking to know he is lying. Take, for instance, his recent quote about what have become known as the Bush tax cuts. Prez says in part: "... the same tax cuts that have added hundreds of billions of ...

"But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years?"  - Thomas Jefferson, ...

The left changes monikers whenever their chosen title becomes too easily identified with their collectivist political intentions. They seized the title “Progressives” in the early 20th Century and adopted “Liberal” when the progressive image became tarnished. Today, with liberalism inextricably linked to collectivism, the left has returned to the progressive label. But one problem remains. ...

You know you’re really making an impact on local and national politics when you begin to be noticed and perhaps targeted by politicians like John Lewis, by organizations like the NAACP, and by liberal journalists like E.J. Dionne.  And so members of the Tea Party find themselves in just such company with accusations by Mr. ...

Little is said about why a larger government decreases economic growth, although symptoms of this are regularly reported. In July 12 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Andreas Bergh and Magnus Henrekson report on the Swedish experiment in socialism and its effect on that economy. For comparative purposes the gentlemen went back to 1960 when Sweden ...

Here’s what happened the last time there was a Social Security ‘crisis’ in 1983, when incoming payroll tax receipts were just about to go below the amount of expected benefit payments going out: * Alan Greenspan was appointed to chair an august national commission to ‘Save Social Security!’. * Your payroll taxes went up. Way up if ...

Over the years, non-profits have become more and more dependent on government (taxpayer funds) to fund their budgets. Sure enough, the number of non-profits has escalated, staffs have grown and, of course, the need for more funds. We literally have dozens of non-profits in Mecklenburg, each with its own paid staff, many of them with ...

Utopia! It's the holy grail of egalitarian busybodies far and wide. If only outcomes were equal, as defined by the egalitarians themselves, the world would become a place of balanced chi and seamless harmony. These societal engineers have long believed in their unique intellects and superlative abilities, which qualify them to distribute wealth and contentment ...

1968 In Vietnam  One of the turning points of the Vietnam War was the 1968 battle called the “Tet Offensive.”  North Vietnamese and Communist South Vietnamese forces realized they could not sustain the heavy losses they were suffering by battling American and South Vietnamese forces in traditional engagements, and so they decided on a strategy of ...

Even though there are no surprises, it turns out the illegal drug business is more interesting than normally thought. Most people know drug dealers, large and small, must somehow transfer their illegally gained money into a legally accepted form in order to use it. The process is known as money-laundering. Bloomberg News reporter Michael Smith ...